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MBA Blog Chatter: Clear Admit's Fridays from the Frontline

"Welcome back to this week’s Fridays From the Frontline, the next installment in the chronicles of academia – er business school! Applicants went through the wardrobe this week, preparing to put their best feet forward in the interviews ahead. First-years greeted the lion and the witch of the recruiting process head on, while second years enjoyed a happy ending. Let’s check out the plot twists for ourselves…"
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Source: Clear Admit

This Week in MBA Chatter 10.19.07

the details of the week reside here...

MBA Applicants
Tips for The Waiting Game
Recommendation Marathon
Recomendee Anxiety
Tuck/Columbia - Plea & Ding
Help - for the downtrodden applicant
Kellogg - done, just in time!

1st Year MBA Students
INSEAD - INSEAD Island Iced Tea
INSEAD - exam survival
Michigan/Ross - finals week
Darden - “five, consecutive, five-hour timed exams”
Harvard - HBS’ Cyberposium 13

2nd Year MBA Students
Stanford - 2nd year: quality vs. quantity
Wharton - workload break
LBS - “the preeminent global business school” tagline is in fact true
LBS - job application

This Week in MBA Chatter 10.05.07

below is the recap...and here are the nitty-gritty details...

MBA Applicants
Wharton - application submitted
Fuqua - interview
Harvard - application submitted
Essays - compelling writing
Writing - eliminating distractions

1st Year MBA Students
Chicago - no lazy weekends
Wharton - Hell Week
Chicago - craziness antidote
Chicago - schedule adjustments
Fuqua - Duke basketball tickets

2nd Year MBA Students
LBS - elective selection lessons
Kellogg - professors
LBS - technical vs. conceptual classes
Wharton - game theory
Columbia - accelerated January program
Yale - study groups
Columbia - student leaders on campus
Stern - landed internship
LBS - course load

Booz Allen CEO Challenge From the Inside

"Last weekend, I had the honor, together with 29 other students from 12 of the top US MBA schools, to participate to the BOOZ ALLEN CEO Challenge held at Kellogg. Here is a recollection of what happened there. From surprise to surprise..."
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Source: Xie Xia A | Chicago GSB 2006